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Sam the koala is given a drink by volunteer firefighter Dave Tree during backburning operations -
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It's been revealed that video footage of a Victorian firefighter giving water to an injured and dehydrated koala was not quite what it seemed.
"Koala Man" Dave Tree made news across the globe with footage of a koala drinking from a bottle. The footage, shot on a mobile phone became a sensation on the website YouTube.com.
However the appealing scene was actually taken in the week leading up to the fires, during preventative backburning operations.
Dave says there was no intention to deceive. He took the video to show his daughter.
The koala "Sam" has come to symbolis the plight of native animals left homeless after the massive fires burnt thousands of hectares of bush.
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